Valve is changing how it releases Deadlock updates going forward, meaning we'll see less of them in 2025. The Half-Life and Counter-Strike maker says the current cycle of patches is making it ...

In my earlier article “Double-Checked Locking: Clever, but Broken” (JavaWorld, February 2001), I described how several common techniques for avoiding synchronization are in fact unsafe, and ...

I am sure there is an anonymous group – like Alcoholics Anonymous – headquartered in Silicon Valley, meeting every quarter to discuss the deadlocks that have paralyzed their products, roadmap and ...

Deadlock has a lot of players right now. Valve’s new game Deadlock has hit a new milestone as it has just hit a new all-time high for concurrent players that has broken the 100,000 mark. While the ...

Valve's invite-only third-person hero shooter and MOBA mashup Deadlock may still be in the early development stages, but from this point on, players can expect its major patches to be less frequent as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. A major new patch for Deadlock has just been revealed, with ...

For the last few months, Valve has been releasing updates for Deadlock every two weeks. It's an impressive schedule that saw the game improve significantly over a short time with more detailed map ...